Mars/Milky Way has given me 2 “Simply Caramel Relax and Enjoy” prize packs to give away to ZOMG, Candy! readers. Each prize pack will include a $75 gift certificate to SpaFinder.com for a yoga class or massage and “Enough Simply Caramel Bars to indulge in for a month (5).”

I thought it was amusing that Milky Way considered 5 candy bars to be a month’s supply. On the one hand, 1 bar a week is a healthy, reasonable indulgence, and 5 chocolate bars/person is a generous gift. On the other hand, don’t they want people buying and eating more than that?

So, to enter this giveaway, simply leave a comment about how many full-sized candy bars you would consider to be a month’s supply. Be sure to leave a real email address (seen and used only by me to contact the winners). Deadline for entry is Sunday, August 15 at 9pm EST. I’ll randomly select 2 commenters to win. Good luck!

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I’ve already won one of your contests, but I just felt like sharing my opinion. I think 4 is a good number for these single serve bars. They are all the same bar, so more than one a week and they may begin to lose their luster.

If we’re talking doomsday scenario candy sustenance, then the answer is simple.

In the event of a Nazi Mutant Zombie Kitten Apocalypse, a month’s supply of Milky Way Simply Caramel bars would be enough bars to be eaten every day for breakfast, lunch, snack time, dinner, and dessert for 30 days.
Every bar is 250 calories, and 1250 calories is about the minimum number of calories that you can sustain yourself on for an extended period of time, so 150 Milky Way bars would be the ideal number for a month’s supply.

i think more than one candy bar per week is a better supply. probably 2 per week, then what if you have a special occasion. or a real bummer of a day. or no time for lunch, so you have a milky way instead. i’d say 10 per month is an adequate supply.

umm, I would say 30/31 candy bars would be a month’s supply. I could easily eat a candy bar a day…but in reality, what I would actually allow myself to eat might be closer to 8-10 (one each weekend day).

that’s a really interesting question. i think 5 sounds about right for how many candy bars i’d *actually* eat in a month, but for a company doing a promotion, that seems… oddly prescriptive. like they are setting you up to feel bad about yourself when you finish them in a week.

Considering that the combindation of chocolate and caramel is the pinnacle of the world of sweets (followed closely by chocolate and peanut butter), I would peg a month’s supply as being 15…one for every other day. Some for me, some to share with my wife who shares my opinion of caramel. I’d even give the massage gift certificate to my amazing wife.

Lately a month’s supply is probably 2 (most likely even less), my life has been super hectic as of late so I don’t even have time for chocolate. Hmm.. no time for chocolate, you know it has to be bad times! Thanks so much for the chance to win, the spa AND candy would be nice!